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By Don Morfe, September 28, 2015
David Wilmot Marker
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1 ► Pennsylvania, Wayne County, Bethany — David Wilmot —  |
| The author of the Wilmot Proviso of 1846 barring slavery from territory acquired in the Mexican War, was born in this house Jan. 20, 1814. He died at Towanda, March 16, 1868, after a notable career in the State and Nation. — — Map (db m89371) HM | |||
| 2 ► Louisiana, Ascension Parish, Gonzales — The Mexican-American War — 1846-1848 — |
| Panel 1 Fifteen years before Americans began fighting each other in the Civil War, they were at war with their neighbors to the south in Mexico. The Mexican-American War began in 1846 and lasted less than two years with the Americans achieving a . . . — — Map (db m114839) HM | |||